Arab Liberation Army

The Arab Liberation Army (ALA) was an army of Arab volunteers formed in 1947 by Fawzi al-Qawuqji to fight in the Palestinian Civil War against Israel and the Jewish paramilitary groups. With 6,000 volunteers, the ALA was set up by the Arab League as an alternative to the Arab High Committee's Holy War Army whose leader Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni was a relative of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The ALA was dissolved in 1949 after the revolt was crushed by the Israelis, with Qawuqji going into exile in Lebanon.